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Award winners share their approaches to innovation (videos)
"Innovation keeps companies fresh," said Christina Keller, business unit leader of Cascade Engineering's Triple Quest, at Business Review West Michigan's Innovation Michigan Award ceremony Thursday. The same could likely be said about Cascade's eight fellow Innovation Michigan Award winners. After the event, Business Review asked the winners about their innovations and what innovation means to them.
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Opinion: Rules for small business success
To grow your start-up or small business, and to grow as a person and professional, you will need to take all of the challenges that come your way and turn them into opportunities. The success of your business depends upon it. The following are some rules for successfully operating your small business: • Know your product and target market. Focus....

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Tablets can help the tech-challenged get connected
I came home recently to find my lovely, tech-challenged wife had a new slate computer. My wife is smart — a teacher, a former business owner and a school board member. But she does not go out and buy technology. The school district had had a brainstorm that addressed the lack of security inherent in schlepping pre-meeting packets to all...

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Upjohn Institute forecasts more job growth for Grand Rapids area in 2012
The Grand Rapids area added more jobs in 2011 than initially forecast, breaking the streak of annual employment declines of the last few years. Further gains are expected in 2012. George Erickcek, senior analyst at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in Kalamazoo, projects overall job growth of 1.1 percent next year for the Grand Rapids area, though public-sector...